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"USA TODAY/CBS News: Senior Moment" MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- USA TODAY is again joining forces with CBS News to extend the reach of "USA TODAY/CBS NEWS: Senior Moment," a cross-platform series that will explore the baby boom generation and its impact on the nation as the first boomers begin to turn 65 in January of next year. The partnership launched today and will run in USA TODAY as a periodic series. CBS News' coverage of this series will begin on THE EARLY SHOW...
NEW YORK, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- CBS placed first in viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 for the fifth consecutive week, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Oct. 24, week five of the 2010-2011 television season. This marks the first time any network has won the opening five weeks of a season in all key ratings measures since 1997, and only the third time a network has accomplished this since the advent of people meters in 1987 (NBC did so in 1997 and...
SILVER SPRING, Md., June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- This July, Investigation Discovery brings two important and compelling series to its investigative news strand, securing its position as the premier destination for authoritative newsmagazines by launching CHASING JUSTICE WITH DAN ABRAMS and 60 MINUTES ON ID. These new additions join the impressive slate of newsmagazine franchises currently on Investigation Discovery including 48 Hours and Dateline, as well as the network's highly successful...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Liberty Media Corporation ("Liberty") (Nasdaq: LCAPA, LCAPB, LINTA, LINTB, LSTZA, LSTZB) today announced the winner of the first annual Media for Liberty Award, a $50,000 award acknowledging and encouraging media contributions that examine the link between economic and political liberty. The CBS News "60 Minutes" segment titled "Congo Gold" was selected by members of the Media for Liberty Award jury as the winning entry for 2010. Print...
Hackers attacking control systems are to blame for the vast power outages in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 that affected millions, CBS News reported.The report, which will air on the 60 minutes program this Sunday, says the 2007 blackout in Espirito Santo State, which affected over three million people, and a smaller blackout in Rio de Janeiro in 2005, were in fact perpetrated by hackers.The discovery was part of an investigation into cyberattacks against the United States. Mike McConnell, the...
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), a leader in multi-screen media measurement serving the entertainment and advertising industries, released the "Stickiness" Index for the week of October 5 through October 11, 2009. The "Stickiness" Index lists the top-25 "stickiest" 30-minute, 60-minute and 120-minute primetime programs based on proprietary information derived from Rentrak's TV Essentials service which tracks anonymous set-top-box viewing...
VERMILLION, S.D., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric," will speak at The University of South Dakota on Thursday evening, Oct. 8, when she is presented with the 2009 Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media. Couric will be the 22nd individual honored by the university and the Freedom Forum since the Neuharth Award program began in 1989. The award, recognizing lifetime achievement, is named for USA TODAY...
Award-winning U.S. news producer and 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt died Wednesday, CBS said. He was 86. Marilyn Berger, his wife of 30 years, told The New York Times he died of cancer at his home in Bridgehampton, N.Y. Hewitt's journalism career spanned more than six decades and took place mainly at CBS where he helped usher in the age of television journalism and directed newsmen such as Edward R. Murrow, Mike Wallace and Walter Cronkite. Hewitt, who was born in New York and raised in the...
CARDIFF, Calif., Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jedi Mind, Inc. (Pink Sheets: JEDM) (http://www.jedimindinc.com) announced today that a "60 Minutes" article aired this last weekend gives a great deal more credibility to "mind control" software and hardware applications. During the "60 Minutes" article, the Brain Computer Interface or BCI was detailed which is basically an EEG cap that reads signals from the brain. Scott Pelley reporting for "60 Minutes" was able to create a word that was...
CHICAGO, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Veteran broadcaster Harry Porterfield is returning to CBS 2 Chicago where he began his television news career in 1964. Porterfield will reintroduce himself to CBS 2 viewers when he appears on today's 11:00 AM newscast. And, beginning Monday, August 10, he will co-anchor CBS 2 News at 11:00 AM and serve as a news reporter for station broadcasts. Described as a gentleman-journalist by his peers, Porterfield has earned the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia journalism...
